For years, coaches and managers have talked openly about the sleepless nights they’ve spent worrying about what life would be like for the Canucks without the Sedins.

We’re about to find out.

Much has been made about the impact the Sedins had on this community and it can’t be understated. But even at the end, the Sedins remained key components of a bad offence. Consider, in the past three seasons the Canucks combined for 582 goals. The only team with fewer is Vegas and it played just one of those three seasons.

And in these three years, on those 582 goals, the Sedins combined for 315 points. Pause, and let it marinate for a moment because all those points need to now be filled. And then some.

Vancouver’s head coach Travis Green admitted he’s spent countless hours worried about it, strategizing how he’s going to help extract more offence out of his Sedin-less team.